Text Editing Application
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A Text Editing Application is a text processing system that solve a text editing task (to edit a text file).
- AKA: Text Editor.
- Context:
- It can solve a Text Editing Task by implementing a Text Editing Algorithm.
- It can range from being a Plain Text Editing System, to being Rich Text Editing System.
- It can include an Automatic Text Error Correction System.
- Example(s):
- a CLI Text Editor, such as vim or emacs.
- a Desktop Text Editor, such as BBEdit or MS Notepad.
- Gedit,
- a WikiText Editing System,
- a LaTeX Editing System such as: Texmaker LaTex Editor,
- a HTML Editing System,
- a Source Code Editing System such as: Notepad++,
- Wikipedia Text Editors List.
- a JSON Editing System,
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Word Processor, Programming Environment, Natural Language Processing System, Text Post-Processing System, Text Processing Task, Text Encoding Decoding System, Text Error Correction System, Typesetting System.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor Retrieved:2020-2-16.
- A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software, following the naming of Microsoft Notepad. Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to change files such as configuration files, documentation files and programming language source code.
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=text%20editor
- S: (n) copy editor, copyreader, text editor (an editor who prepares text for publication)
- S: (n) text editor ((computer science) an application that can be used to create and view and edit text files)